about.me

Thursday app of the week: about.me

Name: about.me Platform(s): The Internet, iPhone Price: Free Mission: Make a one-stop personal (and professional) homepage In this new online age, paper resumes are slowly being replaced by the “personal website.” The personal website is usually a one-page site that contains a short biography, contact information, links to other sites Read More…

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Thursday app of the week: PdaNet

Name: PdaNet Platform(s): Android, iPhone (jailbroken), BlackBerry, Palm OS Price: Free Mission: Get Internet for your laptop in a pinch The time when your Internet connection isn’t working is usually when you need it most. You usually have a paper or application due, and you’re sweating bullets because you can’t Read More…

We Are THE Intelligent Life

We are THE intelligent life

The sanctity of human life is something we’re all rather familiar with, irrespective of whether those teachings stemmed from kindergarten playground bullying or esoteric college breadth courses. As humans, we pride ourselves on being the only intelligent life on the planet, and we’ve made that fact well-known to all other Read More…

13-02-08 Fountain of Youth, The Best Drug

Fountain of Youth: The best drug?

Like students at any self-respecting institution, we here at UC Berkeley are of the hypercompetitive, overachieving supernerds type – or at least, that’s what the rest of the world seems to think. Those descriptions aren’t entirely inaccurate, however. We all have a desire to be better than everyone else – Read More…